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Buried Treasure or Fairy-Tale Verismo? Framing Sicilian Women's Stories/The Idealization of Laura Gonzenbach's Sicilian Tales and the Misrepresentation of a Project: A Response to Dorothy Noyes
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Fairy-tale studies are made especially interesting by the controversies that inevitably accompany them. Accordingly, Marvels & Tales will publish critical exchanges between readers and authors. Concise, professional responses that augment, develop, or constructively challenge the substance of essays published in the journal may be submitted to the editor. Responses should be submitted as an e-mail attachment or on diskette. They should be limited to one thousand words or less and should c...
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Buried Treasure or Fairy-Tale Verismo? Framing Sicilian Women's Stories/The Idealization of Laura Gonzenbach's Sicilian Tales and the Misrepresentation of a Project: A Response to Dorothy Noyes
Marvels & Tales
; Fairy-tale studies are made especially interesting by the controversies that inevitably accompany them. Accordingly, Marvels & Tales will publish critical exchanges between readers and authors. Concise, professional responses that augment, develop, or constructively challenge the substance of
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Maupin's 'Further Tales' Fall Short
The Washington Post
; A minor disappointment that stood little chance of being a major event, "Armistead Maupin's Further Tales of the City" suggests that the prolific bard of New San Francisco is running low on inspiration - - and that plans for "Still More Tales," "Yet More Tales" and "Yet Still More Further Tales,"
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Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales
Journal of American Folklore
; Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales. Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Trans., ed., and introd. by Jack Zipes. Illus. by Joellyn Rock. (New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. xxxii + 363, illustrations, references.) Jack Zipes makes a strong claim when he asserts that Laura
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Children in Nama and Damara tales of magic.(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
Folklore
; Abstract This essay focuses on the narrative traditions of the Nama-speaking peoples in Namibia, South Africa. It describes tales in which children are the main protagonists and discusses the character of African tales of magic. It shows that in these tales the laws of tale-telling that are known
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Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier
Marvels & Tales
; Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier. Edited by Aisha Ahmad and Roger Boase. London: Saqi Books, 2003. 379 pp. with folkloristic analysis, glossary, index of tale types, index of folk motifs, sketches. The book under review is a collection of Pashtun tales collected from the city of
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`More Tales' charms with outrageous fun
The Boston Globe
; MORE TALES OF THE CITY Starring: Laura Linney, Paul Hopkins, Colin Ferguson, William Campbell, Olympia Dukakis, Swoosie Kurtz, Jackie Burroughs, Thomas Gibson Directed by: Pierre Gang On: Showtime Time: Sunday and Monday at 9 p.m. Rated: TVMA (nudity, drug use) Despite the fact that it aired on the
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San Francisco treat - It's Showtime for Armistead Maupin's 'Further Tales' of randy romance in the big city.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Armistead Maupin's Further Tales of the City. Premieres Sunday at 10 p.m. on cable's Showtime. Threes stars (out of four) There are a million stories in the naked city. Many of them are about people getting naked. Armistead Maupin, a writer with a flair, first penned his juicy column about urban
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Folk poetics: A sociosemiotic study of Yoruba trickster tales
Journal of American Culture
; Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales. Ropo Sekoni. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. $40.95. 160 pp. ISBN: 0313-28003-7. Credit Card Orders: 1-800-225-5800. In this study which promises more than it finally delivers, the most abidding characteristic function of the
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IN TWO NEW COLLECTIONS, PANTHEON BRINGS OLD FAIRY TALES AND MYTHS BACK TO LIFE
The Boston Globe
; THE OLD WIVES' FAIRY TALE BOOK Edited by Angela Carter Pantheon, 242 pages, $22.95, illustrated NORTHERN TALES Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples Edited by Howard Norman Pantheon, 347 pages, $24.95 Twenty - ive years ago, the standard lit-critical line was that great 20th-century
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Commentary: 'Tales of the Cocktail' 2006 growth is heady
New Orleans CityBusiness
; It was a treat to watch "Tales of the Cocktail" come of age this year as a New Orleans tourist attraction. Billed by creator Ann Rogers as "the most spirited event of the summer," Tales of the Cocktail attracted more than 8,000 people to 35 events - all imbued with the same intoxicating Crescent
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